Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence the other from pride or fear.
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts.
All business proceeds on beliefs or judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.
Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
If anger proceeds from a great cause it turns to fury if from a small cause it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids mostly homeless kids living with AIDS and HIV in New York in the metropolitan area.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.